Graphical user interface system for allowing management of a media item playlist based on a preference scoring system

• US 8,327,266 B2
• Filed: 05/17/2007
• Issued: 12/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Concert Technology Corporation
• Original Assignee: Napo Enerprises, LLC (Concert Technology Corporation)
• Inventors: Svendsen, Hugh
• Primary Examiner(s): SALOMON, PHENUEL S
• Application Number:
  US11/750,002
• Publication Number:
  US 20090055759A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,028 Days
• Field of Search: 715/833, 715/716, 715/811, 709/231, 707/3, 707/104.1, 707/748
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/00 Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/00 Data switching networks interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units G06F13/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1082 involving incentive schemes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass networks security protocols H04L9/40; wireless communication networks H04W

Abstract

Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for a peer device on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network are disclosed. A client application executing on the peer device provides and enables the GUIs. One of the GUIs may display a media item playlist. The user manages the media items displayed on the media item playlist by utilizing sorting criteria. The media item playlist displays a list of the users subscribing to the P2P network, the title of and information concerning media items recommended by the users and media items stored locally on the peer device, and a score for each media item on the media item playlist. The score may be determined by applying to the media items preferences defined by information provided by the user of the peer device, a profile developed from the defined preferences, and other information provided by the user. The user of the peer device provides the information to the peer device using other GUIs provided and enabled by the client application.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing software for instructing a microprocessor-based device to generate a user interface of a client application, the user interface comprising:

a media item playlist for managing media items, the media item playlist comprising a plurality of columns of information associated with the media items, the plurality of columns of information comprising;

a user column comprising a list of users subscribed to the client application;

a title column comprising a plurality of different media item titles associated with the media items, wherein the media items include a locally stored media item and at least one recommended media item automatically included with the media items in response to a media item recommendation from at least one of the users; and

a score column comprising a score for the media items, wherein the score is determined by applying one or more user-defined preferences to the plurality of media items, and wherein the plurality of different media item titles is displayed based on at least the score and a sorting criterion; and

a plurality of selectors comprising;

an auto-download media item selector operable to establish a first threshold score, wherein the media item with the score based on the one or more user-defined preferences that is at least as high as the first threshold score is automatically downloaded; and

an auto-download preview selector operable to establish a second threshold score, wherein a preview of the media item with the score based on the one or more user-defined preferences that is at least as high as the second threshold score and less than the first threshold score is automatically downloaded.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the at least one recommended media item comprises one of the media items played during a defined period of time.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the at least one recommended media item is limited to an established number of the media items.

4. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the media items play in a play order based on an order in which the plurality of different media item titles are positioned on the media item playlist.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 4, wherein the play order changes if the order in which the plurality of different media item titles displayed changes.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, further comprising:

an artist column comprising at least one artist associated with one of the media items;

a genre column comprising at least one genre category associated with one of the media items;

a decade column comprising a beginning year of a decade, wherein a date of release of the one of the media items occurred within the decade; and

an availability column comprising information regarding a location of one of the media items.

7. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 6, wherein the sorting criterion is associated with one of the plurality of columns and the media item playlist is sorted by selecting the associated one of the plurality of columns.

8. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the at least one recommended media item comprises a plurality of recommended media items, and there is a plurality of corresponding media item recommendations that includes the media item recommendation, and wherein the plurality of selectors further comprises:

a maximum media items selector for establishing a maximum number of the plurality of corresponding media item recommendations in a recommendations queue; and

a plurality of remove media items selectors for selecting a basis for removal of one or more of the plurality of corresponding media item recommendations from the recommendations queue.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the basis for removal of the one or more of the plurality of corresponding media item recommendations from the recommendations queue is a basis comprised from a group consisting of:

score, timestamp, and current sort.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of selectors further comprises a maximum download sessions selector for specifying a maximum number of open sockets for downloading a maximum number of download sessions.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of selectors further comprises:

a maximum download attempts selector for establishing a maximum number of attempts to download the media item; and

a retry interval selector for establishing a time interval between the attempts to download the media item.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of selectors further comprises a flush on rescoring selector, wherein upon selecting the flush on rescoring selector a download queue is emptied of the media items in the download queue upon the media item playlist being re-sorted.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of selectors further comprises an omit media items selector, wherein upon selecting the omit media items selector, the media item in a download queue is omitted from the download queue.